Sleeve for Sebastien Tellier’s album, Sexuality, artwork by Manu Cassu. Layout by Olivia Jourde

Here at CR towers we’ve recently received some record sleeve designs that transported us back to the early eighties…

Peyote pinhole camera

For those of you who are fans of both old-fashioned camera techniques and origami, Corbis have created a website that might have just the thing for you.

The website has a number of camera designs that can be downloaded as pdfs and then printed off, with full instructions how to turn them into the workable pinhole cameras. Here is a selection of the designs, which were created by Fwis design studio especially for Corbis - we think they’re rather nice. Visit corbis.com/readycam to join in the fun.

On the left, last year’s preferred design photo style (by Michalt Slawek) looks as though it may have been ousted by a new preference for the bull dog clip

Just over a year ago we posted on the trend for designers to shoot their work as if held up in front of their faces - or at least their friends’ faces. Now, it seems, those familiar fingers are being replaced by the humble bulldog clip as design’s photography style du jour…

A duratran image from Marcus Tomlinson’s current Paris show, Form

Photographer and filmmaker Marcus Tomlinson’s latest exhibition is currently running at the Galerie Patricia Dorfmann in Paris. Form features a series of duratran images and also a film that Tomlinson worked on with London-based studio, Glassworks, which is made up of some 3,500 still pictures.

The battle for District 8 in Saigon in May 1968 produced many civilian casualties. This woman hit by helicopter rocket fire was helped by a nervous South Vietnamese soldier.

We learned with great sadness over the weekend of the death of the pioneering Magnum photojournalist Philip Jones Griffiths (read The Guardian’s obituary here

Jones Griffiths’ searing portraits of the carnage and misery of the Vietnam war helped turn public opinion against military action. Last year we reported on a lecture given by Jones Griffiths in which he drew parallels with the present conflict in Iraq and urged today’s photojournalists to bear witness to what he termed ‘the American Empire on the rampage”. You can read that report in full here

situation 9, 2007

Strip a city street of all its commercial clutter and is it still identifiable? This is one of the questions posed by a series of artworks by Austrian artist Gregor Graf, currently on show at the Austrian Cultural Forum in London.

Graf mixes old technology with new in his work, using medium format photography to take the initial shots of a city before removing, via Photoshop, all traces of language and signage from the images, including commercials signs, street signs, people and traffic. The cities become virtually unrecognisable as a result, and oddly sinister. Graf has previously photographed Linz and Warsaw in this style, and turned his attention to London when commissioned to create some works by the Visual Arts Platform at the Austrian Cultural Forum. Shown above is a blissfully quiet Oxford Street…